davydm

US healthcare is fuxed - it's built on the same "greatness" of america - extreme capitalism - and kept in place by the people who make the money, because money talks everywhere.

It won't change until the US government sees the people as actual people, which they clearly don't - not just from the healthcare standpoint, but with general policies, and blatant disregard for actual democracy: when you have over 1/2 the nation saying "please get out of the war", and you carry on anyway, what even is the point of your democracy?

TL;DR article is a nothingburger trying to convince you that one person's preferences are "right".

"iphones have better apps" - that's a very opinionated stance, that really should have been worded "iphones have the apps I want". Because I have an android phone, have had for, what, 2 decades now? Since the galaxy s1... And my wife has an iphone - because I started her on that route, because at the time, it was the s1 vs the iphone 3g, and the iphone 3g definitely felt like the superior option, especially with hobbled software updates in my country. In the ensuing years, I've had to support her phone and mine, and I can easily say, hands-down, that my app preference is not on the iOS platform. Doesn't mean "Android is better than iOS" - just means "Android suits _ME_ better than iOS". I even tried a couple of windows phones (my company had them for us to dev on), as well as her old iphone when she upgraded) - and by "tried" I mean, "daily drove" for a week or more. My experience was frustration with the locked-down nature of iphones, disappointment at the small app market for windows phones (even though the hardware - nokia - was glorious), and an eventual return to android even though battery life on the windows phone was phenomenal (the platform simply doesn't allow hogging the cpu - both a challenge for devs, and a boon for users).

Honestly, I'm rather bored of people telling me that their opinions are facts, and the best out there. They're tools for tasks. The author didn't prefer Android (and doesn't really clarify beyond the "apps" line, which is a clear indicator that they became accustomed to specific iphone apps they couldn't find alternatives for - much like how I was frustrated with an iphone for a week, for the same reason).

"One caveat: software development is changing much faster than everything else. My thoughts apply to the rest of a modern enterprise."

it's not really a caveat - the other points raised apply here too: – Agents are in a nascent stage and can’t replace people – LLMs make mistakes regularly – AI costs are subsidized now, but won’t be forever

all of these apply in software dev, and the people telling you it doesn't are just plain bold-faced lying - most of those liars stand to make a lot of money off of you believing that these self-same problems don't apply to ai codegen.

if you're interested in extending, sure

otoh, i'm not - everything has to die sometime

that doesn't mean you have to feel the same - so go for it

The qualification is unnecessary. Don't trust AI, period. Use it, sure, but verify everything.

Some of the things I learned this week:

watchdog for python - cross-platform file modification watcher

There are two great sources of information that support the big bang theory - cosmic background radiation (that I already knew) and the relative densities of hydrogen, helium and lithium as observed with spectroscopy from the sky.

Ghosts cannot exist because they would violate the second law of thermodynamics. By extension, souls are a myth too.

I adopt the same mindset as when I give away money to someone who says they need it - once I've given it away, I've done my part. The same with my FOSS code (which is all BSD-3-Clause licensed, specifically because I want nothing from anyone who uses it - and I'm curious why the author would be upset about people benefiting from their work when they've already made the jump to bsd-style licensing...). I publish the code in the hopes that it may be useful, but also the knowledge that I'll want to get back to it some day. If you make money off of it, and I don't - sounds like I'm just not a great businessman. Which I'm not. I specifically stopped working for myself because I love crafting code and loathe the business side. As long as people pay me for my time (day-job) and accept that some of that time I'll be contributing to FOSS code (that they will likely benefit from), I'm good. I'm not a billionaire, so I need to be paid - but if I won some crazy lottery, I'd quit my work _today_ and just make FOSS code.

another stupid fad - people will do anything to distract themselves from reality

no-one actually cares how you look - at least, no-one whose opinion should matter in the slightest to you

and in 10-15 years, you'll be exactly where you were, just older, not wiser

neato - how do I get it to render without the image dimensions displayed as text within the image?

a monitor for other agents - how unsurprising

almost makes me miss windows - looks great

ngl, i thought this was an app to help with addiction to open-source...

the problem i have here is that there's no way for me to confirm that the secrets aren't stored somewhere on their hardware, either forming a prize worth attacking them for, or, worse, a prize for a less-ethical employee

nice idea, but we now live in a world where we can't just trust a service to do the right thing, and even if they do, to never be hacked

yeah, this is one of the reasons I'll choose to start a new conversation with claude - some old memory from earlier interacting with the current flow. I know, not quite the same thing, because that's just in the context, but it's kinda like memory. I've had the opposite experience with claude too - after several times where I'd pose a question and say "see the attached code dump", but forgot to attach a code dump, I told it to "please remember that if I ever mention an attachment, and there isn't one, stop processing and demand the attachment" because otherwise it goes off on a tangent, trying to be clever. Unlike other memories I've given it, it can't seem to hold onto this one, unless I remind it first at the start of the conversation, eg "remind me what you should do if I mention an attachment, but there is none" - it will recall, and then after that, will stick to it, until the next clean conversation.

But I like your idea - minds evolve, and part of the problem with llms is that they're largely static in nature - no evolution, no upskilling, just wait for the next model to come out. I understand the ramifications of learning all the time from user input (especially possible poisoning), but have always felt this is an area that could improve a lot.

Logged me right out of life!

If you think there's a lot here... I subscribe to the changelog daily email, which surfaces new and trending GitHub repos. Sometimes the entire mail is ai stuff. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, there's an genuinely interesting bit of software hidden in the lost too. Every day is a search for those gems.

Surely that's a lie that simply can't make it past two paychecks? Unless you really aren't necessary at all, in which case, go find something you give a shit about and do that instead.

The very first feature I'd ask for is oauth login, at least via google - I don't want to maintain another password and the security around that, and I want 2fa for login too (which comes for free when set up on the oauth provider - no need for you to do it). Please post back when you've implemented oauth login - I would like to give it a go, but not with yet another set of credentials.

and yet, i remember reading not too long ago about all the people who wanted to abolish dst because it's a really crap experience and there wasn't data to show it would be a bad idea - so i'm wondering: is this new data, or just the old "data" that wasn't enough to convince all the people who wanted to kill dst?

link?

I think this article misses the main point that AI is where it is not because people fought back against it, but because the grifters making it needed to provide incentives such that they could foot their $1 trillion bills.

As I've learned today: confidence is more influential than actual facts. So Altman has confidently grifted his way into a place where he might find a way to foot the bills, even if that way is just government bailout - clever, but hardly the fault of people saying "putting AI in charge is a bad idea".

And yes, we're nowhere near AGI, and, personally, I don't think our current trajectory leads there. Something fundamental has to change to reach that point. LLMs might be tools that an AGI uses, but in the same way that I am not a car (it's a tool I use, and it cannot work alone - it requires some intelligent direction), an AGI would not be a token-predictor. There's more to it than that, as easily evidenced by the hit/miss rate.

I'm not saying "don't use the tools". I'm saying "don't _trust_ the tools" - because they are probablistic, not deterministic. They have no actual understanding. They can string tokens together well enough to fool humans into feeling like there's a person at the other end (and some people are fooled enough to believe AGI is in the making).

I gave up modding windows in any meaningful way after the several times I was left with a machine which was unstable, or had some other issue, or simply became 100% broken after a windows update was pushed to my machine.

It's a corporate operating system, not a user operating system. If you want to customise your desktop experience and have a stable time of it - this is not your platform, sorry. There is really only one platform for customisation: linux. Because distros and software there have been _designed_ around user choice.

Hacks are cool, but inevitably open up vulnerability pathways, not to mention issues with stability and being able to receive security patches, rolled into windows update. It's fine if it's just a personal pc you can reload at any point, but it's pointless for a machine that you require to keep functioning (eg a work machine, or, my personal machine, which does stuff like organise media on a regular basis).

seems interesting, but I'm not going to log in to read the rest

i don't think people realise the harm they do to their blogs by requiring subscriptions and logins - if you have something you genuinely want to share - share it. If you want to make money off of people reading your content, that's cool, but you immediately exclude a lot of people, so your motivations become exceedingly transparent.

one could argue the same about any SaaS-heavy operation - eg, I've heard at my place of work before "why make it when we can just pay for it" - which inevitable wraps back onto a monthly sub and rising costs. I've been blocked from completing the feature-flag implementation in our own software because they'd rather outsource that, with latency and uncertainty, to posthog.

I have to concluded that a lot of people are nowhere near as smart as they think they are.

Another step in the war, and, honestly, not one I can champion.

Overly optimistic this relies entirely on the assumptions that you are able to architect and debug (two rather brain-powered things) better than writing plain code that at least a compiler would error on if it was completely bonkers wrong.

I think there's soon going to be an analogy to the dunning-kruger effect, but for vibe coders, that would reveal just what a self-deception this is.

Or, if you don't want to blow $500, set up your Gmail to do a similar thing. I've been set up like that for well over a decade. This service is likely more flexible, but also more risky - who do you think will stop working first? Google? Or one intrepid dev?

The orange muppet is picking a fight with mexico now after his failed attempt to take Greenland, and bolstered by his recent win using microwave weapons (surely that's Geneva convention material?). This dingdong is gonna get us all in ww3.

because paid medical systems actively exclude those who don't have money, and systems allowed to spiral to the level of the us "healthcare system" will just highlight the problem better

very brave to eat dinner unsupervised!